The way we manage dying in the UK is radically out of step with what people see as a "good death", according to a report by a leading thinktank. A YouGov poll commissioned by Demos found that two-thirds would rather die at home than in hospital, but few actually do.
The report, Dying for Change, argues that the growing dependency on hospital care for the terminally ill is increasing people's distress and that hundreds of thousands of people are dying in wards each year when they could die in their own beds.
